EAA106 Whiteman Flight Training Scholarship for ages 16-21
About 2nd Lt. George Whiteman and to Donate
This is a $2,000 POST-SOLO youth flight training scholarship and is a matching scholarship to help accelerate a young student pilot's progress from part way into their solo work towards a successful private pilot checkride.
REQUIREMENTS:
1) You MUST be actively/recently (within the past 4 months) be taking flight training
2) You MUST have solo'd - and MUST have:
3 hours of solo time logged if a Part 61 student
1 hour of solo time logged if a Part 141 student
3) You MUST have not yet passed your private pilot checkride
4) You MUST be working to earn some of your own flight training money
5) You MUST be between age 16-21 (or within 2 weeks of that age range by the application deadline)
6) You MUST either be a resident or a student in MA or NH, within 1-1.5 hr drive of KLWM.
7) We expect each winner to come to at least one chapter meeting towards the end of the scholarship period to give an in-person update to our members.
NOMINATION (with a CFI Letter of Recommendation) REQUIRED
Our EAA106 Youth Scholarship Selection Team will be calling several flight schools at BVY, LWM, ASH, BED, 2B2, 7B3, 3B3. We will ask each flight school to make one nomination (if any) of their very best qualified student.
Upon nomination, each nominee must complete an application and submit the required documentation (all logbook pages images, including endorsement(s), as well as their Student Pilot Certificate and Medical Certificate images). The application (a link will be sent to nominees) will include questions about the nominee's flight training, school grades, an essay or two, etc.
EAA106 Youth Scholarship Selection team will review the documentation (letter of recommendation, logbook pages, grades, and most likely, hold a zoom interview) to decide whether to approve a nominee for an EAA106 Whiteman Scholarship.
Payout Plan
Starting with the date of the winner's approval by the EAA106 Youth Scholarship Selection team, the winner's flight training receipts will be matched per the following steps/timelines:
1 -- The winner must first pay their flight school (and send our chapter copies of invoices or receipts for) $1,000 of their own money for flight training within the first three months of the award date. The three months allows time for weather cancellations.
2 -- Our chapter will then send the winner's flight school a check for the matching amount to be applied to the winner's flight training.
3 -- The winner then has two months to use up those funds on flight training and must send invoices to substantiate the expenditures.
4 -- The winner than has three more months to pay their flight school another $1,000 (or the difference between the $2,000 award and the amount in step 1) from their own funds.
5 -- Once invoices show the winner has expended a total of $2,000 of their own funds since the award date, our chapter will send a second check to the winner's flight school for their flight training account, not to exceed the scholarship total of $2,000 for steps 2 and 5.
Note: Any failure to meet the above timeline requirements will cause the scholarship to terminate and the balance of any scholarship funds not awards will revert back towards next year's scholarship or additional applicants later in the year.
